“Rain does not fall on one roof alone.”
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Philosophy Quotes
205 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”
African Proverb
“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”
Frank Lloyd Wright · The Natural House, 1954
“I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of human experience.”
Richard Meier
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book X
“The end of art is peace.”
Seamus Heaney · "The Harvest Bow," Field Work, 1979
“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.”
John Shirley
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
Buddha · widely attributed
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · widely attributed
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Rumi · widely attributed
“A lot of people just think of me as a landscape painter, which is quite boring.”
David Hockney · Interview, 2000s
“I think more conceptually about pictures now, in a new way, and it's much freer.”
David Hockney · Interview, 2018
“Drawing is rather like playing music: it's like an interpretation. I never directly copy things. I interpret them.”
David Hockney · Various interviews and writings
“The moment you start thinking about being an artist, you're not really an artist anymore.”
David Hockney · Interviews and lectures, 1970s-1980s
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's not just design, it's art.”
David Hockney · Interview, 2006
“I realized that the camera is a tool, but it is also a way of thought.”
David Hockney · Various interviews, 1980s-1990s
“You cannot be totally sure when you're looking at something that you're seeing it clearly. You can only be sure you're going to look at it closely.”
David Hockney · Secret Knowledge lecture series, 2003
